Integrated piece of legislation that aims to exhaustively cover an area of law.
1A code of law is more easily deified than a flesh-and-blood ruler.
2During the second century BC, Babylon's greatest ruler, Hammurabi, produced the first code of law.
3Dr. Lovell explains the attitude of the Anglo-Saxon race toward their divine code of law.
4That is the De Gamelyn code of law, said the man, and handed Tim the flagon.
5It constitutes the only literature, the only code of law and ethics, of many peoples and tribes.
6Such, finally, was the project of preparing a single comprehensive code of law for the whole country.
7It seeks to establish a caliphate there, installing rule by sharia, the Islamic code of law and morals.
8Why, here it was again, and with the worst of its ancient crimes inscribed upon its code of law.
9A whole code of law, procedure, and precedent grew up on these two subjects, besides others scarcely less extensive.
10Love is my medicine and my code of law;
11One of the points that Austin elaborated most was a classification such as might serve for a scientific code of law.
12There is, both among the Negro and Bantu, a recognised code of law, founded on principles of true but merciless justice.
13But their code of law is dictated, in the last resort, by the people who organize society; Providence takes its cue from men.
14The writers do not say whether the code of morals referred to is a code of law or an unwritten code of public sentiment.
15Now according to the code of laws soldiering is forbidden to penitents.
16The Koran is the Mohammedan's holy bible, creed, and code of laws.
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